| Artemisia tilesii Ledeb. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Artemisia vulgaris subsp. tilesii (Ledeb.) Hall & Clements., Artemisia vulgaris var. tilesii Ledeb. | ||
| Description | Stem floccose-tomentose, glabrescent below, from slender rhizome; leaves deeply divided into 3-5 broadly or narrowly lanceolate, more or less toothed, acute divi- sions, dark green and nearly glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath, the upper- most linear; inflorescence spikelike; involucral bracts elliptic to lanceolate, arach- noid-pubescent, with broad, dark, scarious margin; marginal flowers few, pistillate, the central perfect; achenes glabrous; pappus none. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy places, in the mountains of the interior to at least 2,000 meters. Described from Kamchatka. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Shows a tendency to form small local races. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.